Therefore I for my self try to prepare food as close to what my grand parents or grand grand parents would have eaten in theire time, I'm also starting to make more and more old dishes and soups from old family traditions and recipes. However, i also enhance them with "exotic" things that my culture would typicly not have eaten, both at older times and today... (Garlic, fresh red peppers, etc...)

In english, i try as often as i can to eat old dishes from my own culture, mixed with the goods from asian, indian and mexican traditional cooking...

Ofcourse i read well into the herbs before trying them and cosuming them, as some.. or infact most herbs are really detox herbs that a heavyli toxified body as our western typical bodies may not handle well...

This brings foreward THE QUESTION....
Why don't indians (people of India) get sick from theire dishes and spices?
They eat tons of things like corriander (cillantro / parsley) and don't react bad to them... why?

Because they have eaten it from the time they were born, so theire bodies has not had the chance to accumulate mercury and other pollutants..
So they have such tiny levels in theire systems that they can handle those herbs and spices!!!!!

With us.... accumulating metals for half a life time or so, never having touched the stuff (like cillantro, etc..), think... Caboom!!! Detox / retox!

Try introducing a detoxer into a heavyli poisoned system with high bloodlevels of the poison...... RETOX!! or.. as "school medicine" would call it..... "a food allergy"... blaaahhh... no such thing.... only detox reactions and or reactions from feeding bad parasites, and etc....

Most of us in the western countries had a bad start with lots of food toxins and environmental toxins, etc, and we have never or seldom touched the "good stuff" when growing up... so when as an adult we decide to try a traditional indian or chinese dish.... then BOOOOM! Toxins get mobilized wildy...
Not in those people who have eaten the detox herbs and spices since they were kids or born... They have such low levels of poison in them, that they don't react near as bad as us, they probably don't react at all......


So then my question is..... Do people from India get sick???
I don't think so... and if... like every people of the word, they get sick too.. then it's from eating mc donalds and such in theire respective countries, and not eating traditional! Also it could be "media manipulation" to make it seem like they too get sick much... Like with the swineflu... They call it a pandemic when only a few people have been sick...

Anyway.. i think the above are THE factors...
Eating traditionally, and growing up with a preventative detox diet before poisons has a chance to settle in the body!
Then it's only a matter of eating a traditional maintenance detox diet for the rest of theire lives... And ofcourse Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, etc traditional diets, are loaded with detoxifying herbs... Not to mention theire way of cooking..
Steaming greens, etc... not cooking or woking, not frying.... other techniques...

There you have it all..... + sqautting maybe.. and older more close to nature lifestyles in general!

Cheers!!